Officers: 


M.  A.  SCO  YELL,  Director. 

ROBERT  PETER,  Prof,  of  Chemistry. 
A.  M.  PETER,  Assistant  Chemist. 

A.  It.  CRANDALL.  Prof,  of  Botany. 

A.  T.  PARKER,  Mieroscopist. 


✓ 


Board  of  Control: 


W.  B.  KINKEAD, 

R.  .1.  SPURR. 

PHIL.  BIRD. 

R  A  SPUR R. 

AV.  ]).  NICHOLAS. 

.IAS  K.  PATTERSON. 
M.  A.  SCOYELL. 


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BULLETIN 


Fertilizer  Analyses 


The  following  official  analyses  have  been  made  since  the  publication  of  Bulletin  No.  10. 


TABLE  I. 


Raw  Bone  Manures — Analysis  and  Valuation. 


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Name  &  Address  of  Manufacturer 


Pounds  in  the  Hundred 


Name  of  Brand 


Phosphoric  Acid* 


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M 

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id* 

C<3 

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£5 

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p  co 

£ 

s 

*3 

> 

244  P.  B.  Mathiason  &  Co., 

St.  Louis,  Mo 


245 


S-’ 


255  ( ilobc  Fertilizer  Co., 

Louisville,  Ky 
2d6;J.  B.  Jones,  Louisville,  Ky...'.. 

257  . Same . 1 . 

262  Thompson  &  Edwards  Fertili¬ 
zer  Co.,  Chicago,  Ill . 

265:  Wm.  Skene  &  Co., 

Louisville,  Ky. 
263 ! C.  &  F.  Singer, 

Nashville,  Tenn. 


Increscent  Brand  Fure  Raw 

Bone  Meal . 

Fner>«<*  >nt  Brand  Pure  Bone 

Meal . 

Pure  Raw  Bone  Meal . 

Pure  Raw  Bone  Meal . 

Pure  Ammoniated  Bone  Meal 


Fine  Ground  Bone . 

Pure  Raw  Bone  Dust. 
Fure  Raw  Bone  Meal. 


5.60 

1 

23.59 

1 

23.69  51.52 

1 

'4.04 

1 

;4.9D 

i$ 

35.77 

5. 1 3 

21.45 

21.45j46.86 

4.42 

■  >.37 

35.22 

7.59 

10',;' 

11.56 

22.31  48.73 

3.96 

4.81 

33.19 

7.87 

10.40 

12.21 

22  61  49.37 

4.02 

4.88 

33.60 

5.71 

ISJO 

3.82 

22.52  48.76 

2.96 

3.59 

30.37 

4.39 

23.32 

1.78 

25.10  54.82 

3.16 

3.84 

33.79 

7.55 

13.35 

8.87 

22.2248.53 

O  Qi 

To, 

4.02 

31.04 

6.70 

11.97 

8.88 

20.85  45.54 

4.20 

5.11 

33.00 

TABLE  II. 


National  Dissolved  Bone,  manufactured  by  the  National  Fertilizer  Co.,  Nashville,  Tenn, 
Station  No.  267.  Analysis: — 


Moisture . . . 13.28  per  cent. 

Phosphoric  Acid- 

Soluble . 8.17  per  cent. 

Reverted . 2.65  per  cent. 

Insoluble . L32  per  cent. 


Total . 

Nitrogen...... . 

Equivalent  to  Ammonia 
Potash . 

Estimated  Value  per  ton  $30.81. 


Values  Used: — Phosphoric  acid  in  fine  bone,  4|  cents  per  pound;  do.  in  medium  bone 
•4  cents  per  pound;  nitrogen,  18  cents  per  pound. 

Fine  bone  is  all  that  is  fine  enough  to  pass  through  a  sieve  with  meshes  1-25  inch 
square.  Medium  bone  passes  through  a  sieve  with  meshes  inch  square,  but  does  not 

include  fine  bone. 

*  M.  A.  SCOVELL,  Director. 

Lexington,  Ky.,  December  31,  1887. 


12.14  per  cent. 
.  1.72  per  cent. 
.  2.09  per  cent. 
.  1  92  per  cent. 


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